Graphic inspired by Hevelius's cometography; the artwork was created using archival plates from the Astronomical Observatory Institute of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, Lowell Observatory, Arizona, USA, and a digital photograph from the Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain; Author: Justyna Olszewska

Dear Colleagues and ACM 2026 participants,

We would like to thank you all for attending ACM 2026 and for creating such a wonderful atmosphere throughout the conference in Poznań. We are also deeply grateful for and touched by the many kind words, messages and emails we have received since the conference. It was truly a pleasure to host you in our city, and we hope you enjoyed your stay and that Poznań will remain in your memories for many years to come.

See you in Makau in 2029!

Sincerely,
The ACM 2026 Organizing Committee

Committees

Scientific Committee

Agnieszka Kryszczyńska (AMU)
Dagmara Oszkiewicz (AMU)
Agata Rożek (UEdin)
Colin Snodgrass (UEdin)
Cyrielle Opitom (UEdin)
Petr Pravec (AS CR)
Daniel Hestroffer (LTE)
Nick Moscovitz (Lowell Obs.)
Juan Luis Cano (ESA)
Karri Muinonen (UH)
Federica Spoto (CfA)
Miroslav Broz (CU)
Sabina Raducan (UNIBE)
Siegfried Eggl (UIUC)
Irina Belskaya (KKNU)
Julia de Leon (IAC)
Regina Rudawska (ESA)
Gonzalo Tancredi (URU)
Anne Virkki (HY)
Damya Souami (LESIA)
Myung-Jin Kim (KASI)
Marina Brozovic (JPL)
Milagros Colazo (AMU)

Local Organizing Committee

Dagmara Oszkiewicz (AMU)
Agnieszka Kryszczyńska (AMU)
Magdalena Polińska (AMU)
Jakub Tokarek (AMU)
Milagros Colazo (AMU)
Roman Hirsch (AMU)
Halina Prętka-Ziomek (AMU)
Justyna Olszewska (AMU)
Karolina Dziadura (AMU)
Sławomir Breiter (AMU)
Sofia Mykhailova (AMU)
Patrycja Poźniak (AMU)
Edyta Podlewska-Gaca (AMU)
Tomasz Kwiatkowski (AMU)
Krzysztof Langner (AMU)
Justyna Gołębiewska (AMU)
Przemysław Bartczak (AMU)
Anna Marciniak (AMU)
Julia Gościańska-Łowińska (PUT)
Krzysztof Walas (PUT)
Wojciech Dimitrow (AMU)
Tadeusz Jopek (AMU)
Tadeusz Michałowski (AMU)

Volunteers

Wiktoria Czepeczek
Grzegorz Czerniatowicz
Mateusz Dembski
Karolina Dombek
Maria González Rodríguez
Barbara Handzlik
Kacper Hłądzyński
Tomasz Jarmużek
Dominika Jopek
Mikołaj Kalina
Filip Kalita
Witold Lewandowski
Iga Mieczkowska
Jan Opaliński
Michał Pawłowski
Julia Perła
Joanna Pietrucha
Martyna Siennicka
Wiktoria Stefanowska
Arkadiusz Wicher
Maria Wicher
Aleksandra Wieczorek
Oliwia Wilczyk
Amelia Zabel
Bartosz Ziółkowski